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Talking Heads - A post-it note: Listen to Talking Heads! I never do. And this is dumb, because of all the bands that made New York home base in the late 1970s and 1980s,
Teddy Thompson: ‘Happy lies ahead’ - “I should get up, I should go out, there must be something I can't do without,” Teddy Thompson sings on Separate Ways. Right: The singer --- okay, the character in
Teddy Thompson: A Piece of What You Need - Teddy's in love. Or, knowing how sly Teddy Thompson can be, I should say: At the very least, his persona is. Either way, this is very good news. “Happy lies ahead,” he
Teddy Thompson: A Primer - Keeping the flame lit at the Teddy Thompson Fan Club & Cult --- well, it's been a lonely vigil. Lonely, but rewarding. No one writes a crisper line ("I wish when
Teddy Thompson: Bella - The line on Teddy Thompson is that he’s just too fantastic for his own good. Too gifted a writer, too compelling a singer, too handsome a man. And too insistently
Teddy Thompson: Separate Ways - Teddy Thompson is 30 but with the mussed-up hair and the innocence of an eighteen-year-old. A Brit, which always suggests a certain facility with language. And a legacy
Teddy Thompson: Top 5 - “No amount of hype,” Bruce Springsteen has said, “is as powerful as one kid saying to another, ‘Man, you should have seen that.’ Well, I’m that kid. I saw it. Sadly
Teddy Thompson: Upfront & Down Low - When last we considered Teddy Thompson, he was building his cult. An elite cult, because Separate Ways was so damn special that you could say, well,
The Band - Eric Clapton loved The Band so much that he wanted to quit Cream and join it. How to make that happen? In 1968, he drove up to Woodstock
The Beach Boys Christmas Album - GUEST BUTLER JOE DEPRETA is a New York marketing executive and writer on cultural trends. He recently wrote a compelling piece in Head Butler about the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s 50th
The Beatles - The bullet that exploded John F. Kennedy's head on November 22, 1963 went right on to shatter the hearts of a lot of idealistic kids,
The Black Keys - You already know about The White Stripes. Not a “real” band --- just two kids, guitarist/singer Jack White and his ex-wife/drummer, Meg White. They're from Detroit.
The Book of Mormon - “The music is often dull and, worst of all, derivative within the musical theater genre.” That was the review of "The Book of Mormon" from the Salt Lake Tribune. The other reviews
The Crane Wife - The Crane Wife
The Doobie Brothers Greatest Hits - Soon after I launched Head Butler, a friend told me about The Yummy List,
The Feelies - Full attention, please. We have come to pay homage to The Feelies. It’s safe to say very few of you know them. Well, that’s almost by design. This band formed in
The Hologram Cowboys Lay Down With Their Horses - Bob Lugano is a persistent
The Killers: “Quiet Town” - In 1994, 3,500 people lived in Nephi, Utah. The entire town occupied just 4.6 square miles. It’s 90% Mormon. Everybody knew everybody. On November 8, 1994, JaNae Taylor and Raymond Leo
The Long Road Home: The Ultimate John Fogerty Creedence Collection - Thought I heard a rumblin' Callin' to my name, Two hundred million guns are loaded Satan cries, "Take aim!" I never heard that line --- it's from 'Run Through the
The Rolling Stones: Aftermath - The "world's greatest rock band" has been a parody of itself for so long that even those of us who were around when they earned the title have trouble explaining the
